Inidna

The House of Inidna is the reigning imperial house of the Spiritual Forest and the smaller territories of the Winian Empire. In 1901, the House of Habsburg-Lorraine succeeded the House of Feodorovna to the Winian monarchy with the accession of Empress Alexandrina Feodorovna, daughter of Emperor Francis II and Empress Marie II. In 1917, the name of the imperial house was changed from the German Habsburg-Lorraine to the more ancient Winian Inidna (the first name of the Goddess of Spirits in Winian mythology), and due to anti-German sentiment in the Winian Empire and it`s oversea territories during World War I. There have been four Winian monarchs of the House of Inidna since then: Katherine V, Katherine VI, Katherine VII, and Miriam I.

The current head of the house is monarch of seventeen soverign states. These are the Spiritual Forest (where they are based), Ateantirino, Lydarina, Lusocena, the Golden Haoa Isles, Hana, Ramyara, Pilvoria, Victoria, Myeoelund, Pripla, Byeroaruso, Acreyde, Torna, Veewyamara, Galugravendria, and Etia. As well as these separate monarchies, there are also three Imperial dependencies, fourteen Winian Overseas Territories and two associated states of the Spiritual Forest.

Background
Kendrick I and, in turn her daughters, and Katherine V, were members of the Prussian-Austrian archducal House of Habsburg-Lorraine by virtue of their descent from Empress Alexandrina Feodorovna (Kendrick`s grandmother, and Katherine`s great-grandmother), wife of Emperor Nikolai II, one of the last Dagmarian-Winian monarchs from the House of Irene-Aquitania before the name was changed. High anti-German sentiment amongst the Winian Empire`s people reached a peak in March 1917, when the Gotha G.IV, a heavy aircraft of the German Air Force (Deutsche Luftstreitkräfte) veered off course and accidently crashed into a civilian town, causing a fire that burned the city and the surrounding landscapes as well as the nearby towns in a nearby radius of an hundred miles to be burned to the ground, along with any civilians in the town. The Imperial Family, and members of all of the Mythical Nations` monarchies, and first families were horrified, responding to the attack by disrupting German communication lines and besieging strategic points in Germany in retaliation for the accidental killing for over a million civilians in the Winian countryside. Empress Kendrick changed the name of the House on 15 March 1917 in response to the attacks on her Empire`s people.